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Saturday, February 29, 2020

Google Relaunched Homework Assistance App Socratic On Android

Google has launched Socratic, a mobile-based learning app that supports enhancements in Google Play Store for Android devices with artificial intelligence (AI). This AI-based app is designed to offer all high school and college students need in one location.

Socratic launched back on iOS for the first time, originally known as Smart Homework. The app, designed to provide you with tools and advice about your job without doing it for you straight away, analyzes pictures taken from worksheets and provides relevant information based on what they scan.

Google acquired Socratic in March 2018, which was available on Android devices in 2017, and last year launched its revised version for iOS devices.

It’s marketed to endorse most high school subjects, including Algebra, Biology, Chemistry, Geometry, and Trigonometry. One way to find answers is to search on Google.com, but the company now provides a more focused learning-catered searching experience.

Chris Pedregal and Shreyans Bhansali formed Socrátictic in 2013. The app initially offered a Quora-like Q&A forum where students would be able to ask questions that experts had answered.

By the time Socratic raised $6 million in Series A funding back in 2015, it had expanded to about 500,000 students in its culture. Later the business grew to focus less on linking users and more on usefulness.

There are over 1,000 subject guides on the app that would cover high school and higher education topics. The study guides allow its users to study or go over a specific topic through key or highlighted points.

When using the app, it only takes two taps for the user to see with which topic they needed help. The platform links to various resources that can be found on the web if the user wishes to learn more.